Fasig-Tipton Digital

Contrary Thinking (Into Mischief), who ran in a trio of Grade I races as a 5-year-old last year, has a new home as Amanda Gillman, acting on behalf of Lucky Hat Racing and Eric Bensussen, went to $130,000 to acquire him through the Fasig-Tipton May Digital Sale. Consigned by EliTE as agent for White Birch Farm, the gelding recently came off the bench at Belmont's Aqueduct meet Apr. 25. "He's a lightly-raced 6-year-old with a 2X condition, which is rare to find," Gillman said. "He's such a classy horse and...

With a clearance rate of 91%, the Fasig-Tipton May Digital Sale closed Tuesday with gross sales of $2,229,500. Topping the 69 sold was Blessed Flyer (Dialed In), who hammered for $270,000 to Mike Tomlinson, agent for Mark Farrar and Patricia's Hope LLC. Consigned by Evergreen Equine, agent and sold as hip 1, Blessed Flyer is a 2-year-old colt who captured his debut in a Keeneland maiden special weight Apr. 16. "I'm really excited about the results, especially as we had only a week from the April sale to put together...

Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 94 entries for its May Digital Sale, which opened for bidding Thursday. Amongst the full catalogue, which may be viewed online here, is the five-strong consignment of Tessa Walden's Evergreen Equine, including an exciting 2-year-old maiden special weight winner from Keeneland in Blessed Flyer (Dialed In) (hip 1). "It's hard to get them to races this early and he did it very effortlessly," Walden said. "There were some bullet works in there and some other flashy moves but the best move he made was when he won....

The flash sale for Starship Beauty (Hard Spun), a half-sister to Kentucky Derby hopeful Fulleffort (Liam's Map) and GISW Power Squeeze (Union Rags), is accepting bids, the organization announced via press release. Offered pregnant to Constitution for her first foal, Starship Beauty is consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency. Her aforementioned half-sister won three graded stakes in her career including the GI Alabama Stakes as a 3-year-old. The millionaire daughter of Union Rags sold for $2.5-million at the Fasig-Tipton November sale last year to Godolphin as a broodmare prospect. Half-brother...

Nitrogen (Medaglia d'Oro), fresh off an Eclipse Award-winning season in 2025, opened her 4-year-old campaign with a win in the Feb. 7 GIII Bayakoa Stakes--a victory trainer Mark Casse called "the best race she's ever run." Things didn't go quite as well when the filly faded to third in the Mar. 7 over a sloppy Oaklawn surface in the GII Azeri Stakes, but she will look to get back on track when she returns in the GI Apple Blossom Handicap Saturday at Oaklawn Park. She is the 9-5 morning-line favorite...

Bill Casner's Rafter C Ranch went to $260,000 to acquire Alisal (Uncle Mo), a 3-year-old stakes-placed filly, from Tuesday's Fasig-Tipton January Digital Sale. The priciest filly or mare sold Tuesday, Alisal raced exclusively at Remington Park for trainer H. Ray Ashford, Jr., breaking her maiden in her second start Oct. 9 and adding an allowance win next out Nov. 15 before capping off her season with a runner-up effort in the Toby Keith Stakes Dec. 20. Consigned by Warrendale Sales as a racing or broodmare prospect, Casner seems fit to...

Springboard Mile Stakes victor Express Kid (Bodexpress), a California-bred with 10 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, brought down the gavel for $800,000 on the Fasig-Tipton Digital platform Friday. The freshly minted 3-year-old sold to Brad Kleven and was consigned by Paramount Sales, agent. "We live for results like this one," said Paddy Campion of Paramount Sales. "A good horse really can come from anywhere and it's made all the more rewarding when you have connections like owner Steve Haahr and trainer Wade Rarick who, from the little...

Bidding is now open for the flash sale of recent Springboard Mile Stakes victor Express Kid (Bodexpress), announced Fasig-Tipton Digital Monday via press release. Consigned by Paramount Sales as agent, the California-bred son of Bodexpress was most recently seen winning the aforementioned Remington Park marquee and collecting 10 points toward the Road to the Kentucky Derby series. The 6 1/4-length win earned him a career-best Beyer figure of 85. Express Kid has been on the board in four of five lifetime starts and claims earnings of $236,902 with one of...

New York-bred 2-year-old filly Iron Orchard (Authentic), who ran her record to a perfect three-for-three with a victory in the GI Frizette Stakes at Aqueduct on Oct. 4, was sold to Larry and Karen Doyle's KatieRich Farms for $2.5 million as part of the Fasig-Tipton Digital Fall Flash Sale, according to release from the company late Thursday evening. Bidding opened on Oct. 10. A romping debut winner in a restricted Saratoga maiden on July 3, the dark bay--whose most recent trip through a sales ring saw her bring $500,000 at...

The Major Reduction of Harris Farms closed Tuesday afternoon with 75 horses sold for $1,045,000. The sale offered horses of racing age and broodmares, including those with foals at foot. Nu Pi Lambda (hip 50), in foal to Liam's Map, sold for $200,000 to Hinkle Farms to top the session. The winning City Zip mare is a half-sister to multiple Grade 1 winner and course record setter Deterministic (Liam's Map). She was offered carrying her first foal on that proven cross. The sale led off on a high note, with...

Fasig-Tipton will offer 90 horses as part of a major reduction of Harris Farms, the Thoroughbred operation of leading California breeder and owner John C. Harris, who passed away in July at the age of 81. The auction will be conducted as a standalone sale on its digital platform from  Aug. 14 through 19. "John Harris was a pillar of racing, both in California and nationally," said Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales.  "We are honored to be entrusted with the reduction of Mr. Harris's breeding and racing stock,...

The gray 2-year-old filly Spectacular Grey (Not This Time), who was named a 'TDN Rising Star' on debut at Monmouth Park July 12, topped Fasig-Tipton's July Digital Sale Tuesday afternoon when she sold for $625,000 to Epic Horses, LLC. Sold as hip 30, Spectacular Grey won her unveiling by 7 3/4 lengths in a sharp time of :58.33 for the five furlongs. She was offered at the July Digital Sale as a horse of racing age by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. "We are thrilled to have bought Spectacular Grey,"...